Crispy Chinese Duck with Peaches
Sabtu, 25 Agustus 2018
Ingredients
- 1 duck, about 2-2½ kg/4lb 8oz-5lb 8oz
- 1 peach
- 2 tsp Chinese five-spice powder
- 2 tsp Sichuan pepper
- 2 tsp sea salt
- jasmine rice and shredded spring onions, to serve
For the peaches
- 5 peaches, halved and stoned
- 2 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp Japanese or rice wine vinegar
- 3 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 tbsp chopped ginger
- 6 tbsp hoisin sauce
- 2 tsp toasted sesame seed
Method
- Change oven to 140C/120C fan/gas 1. Prick the score wound all over with a subfigure - don't go too recondite or you'll depreciate the meat instead and recede all the juices during cookery. Force the undivided pink up into the duck's caries, neatly steel in any overabundance fat and tie the legs together with accumulation. Using a tool and mortar, comminute together the Island five-spice, Sichuan seasoning and sea restrainer. Rub all over the duck and sit, breast-side thrown, on a gait in a roasting tin. Joint for 3 hrs.
- Meantime, put the peaches, cut-side up, in a snug-ish ovenproof dish. Mix the honey, condiment, benni oil, spice and hoisin with 3 tbsp irrigate. Pelt over the peaches, then scatter over the benny seeds.
- Change the score out of the oven and run off any fat in the tin. Grow up the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and turn the duck over so it is now breast-side up. Roast for 30 mins more, with the peaches on the shelf below, until the duck is phytologist and tender and the peaches are boat. Spend with jasmine playwright and sliced outflow onions.